ASX 200 falls; Lendlease, Ingenia get first strikes; Optus CEO quiet on future
Oil price falls weigh on energy producers. Lendlease, Ingenia investors deliver first strikes. Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin defends handling of outage. APM founder's near-$4m buy-in.
Welcome to the Trading Day blog for Friday, November 17. The ASX 200 index closes down 0.1 per cent at 7049.40 points, weighed by energy stock falls. Wall Street closed mostly flat overnight.
The Aussie dollar is trading around US64.63c.
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